Friday 23rd January at 1.30pm in Culture Lab, Newcastle University, The Research Centre for Film and Digital Media (RCFDM) at Newcastle University is hosting a half-day symposium on film and visual culture in Northern Ireland, to be followed by the launch of Paula Blair's Old Borders, New Technologies: Reframing Film and Visual Culture in Contemporary Northern Ireland (Peter Lang, 2014).

Guest speakers from various backgrounds will gather to share their thoughts at which promises to be two enjoyable and informative days. The working languages of our conference are English and Chinese. Students from T&I Stage II will provide consecutive interpreting services on site to help you overcome any linguistic barriers. We look forward to seeing you! For the most up-to-date programm "like" the School of Modern Languages on our Facebook Fan Page.

The North East German Network is part of the developing national ‘Think German’ network which is being initiated by universities in various regions across the UK. NEGN is dedicated to productive cross-cultural cooperation involving schools, cultural organizations, businesses, and policy-makers. The NEGN website will be a portal to all things German for schools, students, businesses and indeed for all those who have an interest in the German language and its culture within the North East region. For a sneak preview of what the network will encompass, follow us on Twitter Account and like us on Facebook.

Thousands of people around the world have shown their outrage about the 43 Mexican students from the rural teachers college in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, who disappeared under horrific circumstances last September. What followed in Mexico has been an unprecedented civic protest movement asking for the violence to end, and denouncing the links between the state authorities and organised crime in the country. Join us on Wednesday 26, PERB.G.13 to hear it from people involved in this movement.